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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






2. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






3. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






4. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






5. Open syllable






6. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






7. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






8. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






9. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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10. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






11. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






12. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






13. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






14. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






15. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






16. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






17. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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18. Whole body learning






19. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






20. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






21. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






22. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






23. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






24. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






25. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






26. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






27. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






28. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






29. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






30. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






31. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






32. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






33. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






34. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






35. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






36. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






37. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






38. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






39. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






40. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






41. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






42. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






43. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






44. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






45. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






46. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






47. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






48. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






49. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






50. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.